Sharp County record., 1887-09-08
rAIMAGEs SERMON
on,na s,,asested BY Its STUDY

w
the Res' Women and
n-,~os-MuscYen Discussed IN
! Eaeminstmestic RelationS'
Tb
d ~ na Witt Talmage took Tor tne
1T Of hissixth sermon at Inc i" toPt
9 = aWoman's Opportunity" lis ''A'
1, .rsosed man in his own image IN lne
= NJ God created he him; maze anu
. ID he them.-Genesis l., ~
4 ,ther words, God, who can MAKE NJ
! ~, ~ .,sda man and woman for Spe'
Z W. work. and to move in par1lcG,a' p,,,,
/ .,sman w." to be regnant in his realn'
d .n - 70 he dominant in hers. The DOun9
1 -: - - bstween Italy and Switzerland,
. sen England and Scotland, Is Is dis' IT'
d I'll thoroughly marked than TINS ulS, us
b SS,or I between " the empire masculine anu
d ~ r,pu the flelds towhich God called them
\ rou - ' can no more compare them than
ta..n ~ oxygen and hydrogen, water anu
y trees and stars. All tn,s 'ath In" "oU COW
puuperiority of one sex to the C'nep pa"h SyA
/, asvarlasting AVE. waste of ink and speech.
rso,sr nav have a scale so delicate
he can weigh the dust OF dlamohuS,
there are the scales sodelicate tnat S you
1 Weigh them in affection against angot
.snt;ment e,J against sentiment, thougnt
4 1T '' thought, soul against soul, mans
b, AGAINST a woman's world! you
h ant with your stereotyped remark,
,tt,an is superior to woman in intellect'
chem | open on my desk the sWar'ny,
rlsvped. thunder-bolted writings Oh
M Martineau, and Elizabeth brown
and George Eliot. You come on
a vour stereotyped remark apous
ANS superiority to man in the item OF
Ition. but ask you where was there
can capacity to love than in John, the
nle and Robert McCheyne, tne
s,hman. and John Summerfeld, the
d odist. and Henry Martin, the MIS-
.srv. The hearts of those men were SO
u that after you had rolled
!, them two hemispheres, there
4 room still left to marsnal
Tosts Of Heaven and set up the throne
he eternal Jehovah. deny to man
rhrone Intellectual. I deny to woman
lbrone affectional. No human phrase
= will ever define the spheres, while
/, is an intuition by which we kno"
/, a man is in his realm, and when
an is in her realm, and when either OF
: Is ont Of it. No bungling legislature
u to attempt to make definition OF
": "This is the line and that is the
\ theory is that if a woman wants to
she ought to vote, and that if a man
Is to embroider and keep house he
Il to be allowed to embroider and keep
a. There are masculine women ana
Innate men. My theory is that you
|. no right to interfere with any ones
: any hing that is righteous. AL
h and Washington might as well de-
! by legislation how high a brown
S;her should fly, or how deep trout
Id swim, as to try to seek out the
at or the depth Of a woman's
7. The question of capacity
|, settle finally the whole ques'
the whole subject. When
an is prepared to preach, she will
,ch, and neither conference nor presby-
can hinder her. When a woman is
tared to move in highest commercial
res she will have great influence on
Exchange, and no boards of trade can
ler her. ] want woman to understand
|. heart and brain can overly any bar
hat politicians may set up, and that
ing can keep her back or keep her
but the question of incapacity.
lere are women, l know, of most unde-
ile nature, who wander up and down
country having no homes of their
or forsaking their own homes-talk-
about their rights, and we know very
that they themselves are fit neither
tie nor TO keep house. Their mission
IS to be TO humiliate the two sexes at
thought of what any of us might be-
!. No one would want to live under
Jaws that such women would enact, or
ave cast upon society the children
such a woman would raise. But l
1 show you this morning that the best
is that woman can own she al
y has in her possession; that her posi-
lin this country at this time is not one
snmiseration, but one of congratula-
that the grandeur and power of her
n have never yet been appreciated;
she sits to-day on a throne SO high
all the thrones of earth piled on top
ch other would not make for her a
stool. Here is the platform on which
stands. Away down below 1t are the
lt-box and the congressional as
,lage and the legislative hall. Women
4ys have voted and always will vote.
great-grandfathers thought they were
aeir votes putting Washington into
presidential chair. No. His mother,
le principles she taught him, and by
iabits she inculcated made him Presi-
I. It was Christian mothers hand
ping the ballot when Lord Bacon
70, and Newton philosophical,
Alfred the Great governed,
Jonathan Edwards thundered of
ment 70 come. How many men there
been In high political station who
"a have been insufficient to stand the
70 which their moral principle was put
It not been for wife's voice that en-
aged them to do right, and wife's
'er that sounded louder than the
lor Of craftsmanship? Why, my friends,
light Of Suffrage, as we men exercise
'ems TO be feeble thing. You, a
stlan man, come up to the ballot-box
you Drop your vote. Right after you
es dpertine, or sot-the offscouring
70 streetrand he drops his vote; and
voto counteracts yours. But if in the
or nome life daughter by her
Stlan demeanor, a wife by her in
q h., l.